Organizers

WeGov 2010

PCI10

About Tripolis

Tripolis is the capital of Arcadia. Its distance from Athens is about 160 Kilometers, approximately 1h 45min drive through the motorway. You may also reach Tripolis by bus; more details on bus schedules and fares are provided by KTEL Arcadias S.A.

When Security Meets Usability: A User-Centric Approach on a Crossroads Priority Problem Christos Fidas (University of Patras and University of Western Greece), Artemios Voyiatzis (Industrial Systems Institute and University of Patras) and Nikolaos Avouris (University of Patras)

Towards Differentiated Utilization of Attribute Mutability for Access Control in Ubiquitous ComputingChristos Grompanopoulos and Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia

A Simple Analytical Model for the Calculation of Packet Blocking Probability in an Optical Packet Switching Network Franz Röck (Graz University of Technology), John Vardakas (University of Patras), Ioannis Moscholios (University of Peloponnese), Michael Logothetis (University of Patras) and Erich Leitgeb (Graz University of Technology)

Opportunistic Beamforming in OFDMA systems Dimitra Zarbouti, George Tsoulos and Georgia Athanasiadou, University of Peloponnese

Web-Based Simulation Systems in Technological Education Implemented as Micro-Worlds Anastasios Oikonomidis (Technological Education Institute of Piraeus) and Constantinos Iliopoulos (University of the West of Scotland)

13:30 – 14:30 Keynote 2

European Research and Development Initiatives: Case Studies on Computing/Embedded Systems

Assistant Prof. Dimitrios Soudris, National Technical University of Athens.

22:30 Live music with traditional band, central square of Nestani Village (20m from the tavern)

The live music event is organized in cooperation with the Dancing Association of Tripolis. Participating musicians include Th. Mourlas (violin), N. Papailiou (clarinet), Lykouretzos (percussion instruments), Kyr. Markogiannakis (lute) and V. Karas (vocals).

Sunday, September 12 - Faculty of Science and Technology

10:00 – 11:40: Parallel Sessions

Software Engineering

PaCoNet Special Session I -QoS and Resource Allocation in Computer Networks

Session chair: Vassileios Vlachos

Open Source Licensing Across Package Dependencies Maria Kechagia, Diomidis Spinellis and Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Athens University of Economics and Business

Software and Middleware Technologies based on Open APIs and Protocols for modern Service Provision in Telecoms Nikolaos Tselikas (University of Peloponnese), George Tselikis (4Plus S.A.) and Nikos Sagias (University of Peloponnese)

Overview:

The organised Special Session is devoted to the most recent analytic, simulation and experimental studies, standardisation efforts and deployment examples of Computer Networks. It is anticipated to attract high-quality submissions and stimulate the cuttingedge research discussions among academic pioneering researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from Greece as well as all around the world. PaCoNet 2010 will include a Keynote Speech by an internationally-renowned researcher from the Telecommunication industry, a Panel on Computer Networks organised by experts from both academia and industry and a Technical Program consisting of research papers (work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome).

Topics:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Modeling and Simulation of Wired, Wireless and Mobile Networks

Protocols and Architecture for Wired, Wireless and Mobile Networks

Performance Evaluation and Standardization of Wired and Wireless Standards

Network Access Techniques

Energy efficiency in protocol and systems design

Wired and Wireless System Services and Applications

Security, QoS and Resource Allocation in Wired and Wireless Networks

Cross-layer Issues

Wireless Mesh and Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

WiFi, WiMAX, LTE

Wired / Wireless / Mobile Internet

2G - 3G - 4G Convergence and Interworking

Cognitive Radio NetworksvSensor Networks Technologies and ProtocolsvMobile Social Networks

Proceedings

The PCI 2010 Conference proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be distributed during the conference. Conference Publishing Services arranges for indexing through Thomson ISI, IEE (INSPEC), EI (Compendex), and other indexing services and archives the publication to IEEEXplore and the Computer Society Digital Libraries (CSDL).